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JESUS CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5
Isaiah 49:5-12

Ephesians 1:15-23

 

Without Christ –

a hopeless end.

 

JESUS CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL
 
Jesus Christ is God’s best gift to us, given to every believer. Reader, can you estimate what you have gotten in Christ our Lord? “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col 2:9). Pause a while and ponder: there are inestimable, unspeakable blessings procured by Jesus for you and me who believe. All that Christ, our Emmanuel, has is yours. Out of pure unmerited favour, God has assigned to you, to be your possession for ever, all that belongs to Christ our Lord.
 
Let us enumerate what it all means. Think of His great power. “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matt 28:18), says the Lord. That power is yours to strengthen and enable you to cope with difficulties, to overcome temptations, and to persevere in your walk with God, till you arrive Home. Think of His love. Out of His inexhaustible ocean of love He fills our prepared hearts and you may say: “It is mine.” Then His love will flow from you to others around you.
 
Think of His justice. Can such a high and noble attribute be yours? It may seem impossible, but even this is yours, by His grace, for He will by His justice ensure that all the covenant promises shall most certainly be secured to you. All that Jesus has as the Perfect Man is yours. As your representative, He stood accepted by the Father.
 
Dear reader, when God accepts Christ, He accepts you! The love which the Father set on His beloved Son, He sets on you now! All that Christ did, He did for you, and me. His perfect righteousness is yours, imputed to you “by grace…through faith” (Eph 2:8). He is our ALL in ALL.
 
THOUGHT: “My God, I am thine - what a comfort divine! What a blessing to know that the Saviour is mine!” (Wesley)
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, for Thy great and bountiful love, care and provision for me.

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